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The Grand Award candidates

We are proudly announcing 6 Grand Award candidates.

For 2011, Good Design Grand Award will be elected by vote for the Grand Award candidates selected from all Good Design Award winners. Judges, Good Design Award 2011 winners and visitors of “Good Design Exhibition 2011” can vote. We are looking forward to seeing you voting at Good Design Exhibition 2011.

-> Please click to see for more detail of election.

6 Grand Award candidates as follows

11G02035
11G02035

LED Bulb
Panasonic LDAHV4L27CG

Panasonic Corporation


11G07064
11G07062、11G07063、11G07064

3D SMART LED TV
UN55D8000, D7900, D7000

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.


11G08051
11G08051

Rolling stock
Series N700 7000/8000 Sinkansen

West Japan Railway Company + KYUSHU RAILWAY COMPANY


11G10041
11G10041、11G11051、11G14008

Heavy Ion Irradiation System / Particle therapy facility

Toshiba Corporation + National Institute of Radiological Sciences + NIHON SEKKEI, INC.


11G13012
11G13012

Game System
KinectTM for Xbox 360®

Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.


Grand Award Election

Election period : October 28 - November 6
Place :The polling place will be set at Good Design Exhibition 2011 at Tokyo Midtown Design HUB, and you can see all candidate's actual products, movies and explanation panel there.

Presentation of Good Design Grand Award 2011 candidates
"Good Design Presentation - Grand stage 2011" :

Grand Award 2011 candidate designers will make open presentation as follows.
Date : October 29 15:00 - 16:30
Place : Tokyo Midtown Conference Room 7
* Broadcasting by the Internet is planed.

Please E-mail to info-e@g-mark.org to come to see the presentation.
* If applications are over 150 it will determine capacity of 150 persons.

For announcement of the result :
On November 9 around 16 JST, it will be released on this website.